This is what happens when you have a two-tier entry system. They should get rid of it. It’s a relic of the days when Officers bought their commissions. The Starship Troopers model is the way to go. Everyone out to reach the rank of Sergeant and then they can whether or not to go through the lobotomy.

Poor planning,poor attention or just rotten luck,the same way it usually happens.
Hell of a note,get wounded and survive combat only to get wiped out in a parade.
They were heros right to the end though.

‘I believe that politicians, lawyers, busy-bodies and do-gooders are like salamis- greatly improved by hanging for a time.’ Oswald Bastable

"The loss of freedom is like cancer; it will spread slowly but surely across all parts of society until our liberty has been utterly eaten away and we are left with nothing but a half-forgotten idea of what freedom was."